The April 2024 total solar eclipse offered a fleeting but powerful window into the sun’s impact on Earth’s atmosphere.

Multiple spacecraft captured the moon's shadow sweeping across North America at more than 1,500 mph during the 2024 total ...

Using ALMA, astronomers discovered that Proxima Centauri produces frequent, high-energy millimeter-wavelength flares that ...

A powerful X1.1-class solar flare causes radio blackouts across the Americas. It was followed by a coronal mass ejection.

Astronomers are warning that Earth could be hit any minute by space weather and intense aurora borealis following the sun's April 1 venting of the most powerful category of solar flare. The Space ...

Solar flares are classified based on their strength and fall into five designated categories: A, B, C, M and X. An X-class ...

After last week's explosive X-flare, sunspot AR4046 is at it again! Could this latest eruption bring stormy space weather to ...

experts say When the radiation from a solar flare is aimed toward Earth, it can cause radio blackouts across the side of the ...

Above sunspots, active regions in the sun's atmosphere produce solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs), both of which can influence Earth via space weather. However, the frequency of ...

"This mission's trailblazing research is rewriting the textbooks on solar science by going to a place no human-made object has ever been." NASA's Parker Solar Probe has successfully completed its ...

Earth's magnetic field deflects most of the ... and space weather events like geomagnetic storms and solar flares occur more frequently. Scientists predict that the solar maximum will continue ...

A solar flare erupted from the sun on Friday and is zooming across space, forecast to reach Earth Saturday night and forecast to trigger a geomagnetic storm upon arrival. The timing is even working ...